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After 40 years, medical schools are admitting fewer Black male or Native American students

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When Scott Strome moved to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center to become executive dean of the college of medicine, there were just 6 Black students in a class of 170. “We vowed to change that,” he told STAT. They’ve worked to cut student debt, drop the requirement that applicants be from Tennessee or neighboring states, and diversified the admissions committee by adding more faculty members of color and local Black physicians in response, he said, to being told by accepted students who declined to come to UT that “not a single person on the admissions committee looks like me.”

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